Discover the latest news about Connections and best practices in behavioral health care—with critical insights for communities, managed care organizations, providers, and more
Behavioral health care's crisis response system is broken. Emergency rooms and jails often become default options for those needing care, despite their inability to provide adequate psychiatric treatment. To address this issue, the Roadmap...
“Now, this facility is going to be state of the art. This facility is going to be the template,” Youngkin said. “A facility that is not in a hospital setting, a facility that, in fact, is an inviting facility that has an opportunity for Vi...
Colin LeClair, CEO of Connections Health Solutions, shares his concerns with Karen Jagoda from the Empowered Patient Podcast about the lack of resources for people needing behavioral health crisis care and solutions for urgent and emergency...
All crisis facilities should be able to provide care that is recovery-oriented and focused on helping the individual return to community-based care. Other core capabilities include:
Dr. Margie Balfour, with the Crisis Response Center, says the Tucson Police Department can bring those in need of treatment directly to the facility for immediate care.
Recently, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) updated its Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) criteria to better align with its National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care.1
A coalition of five King County cities is set to build the county’s first walk-in mental health crisis care center, officials announced Wednesday, a move that comes before a countywide levy vote in April that could add even more such center...
March 8, 2023 – Connections Health Solutions, the leading innovator of immediate access behavioral health crisis care, is proud to announce it has secured a location in the 405 Kirkland Corporate Center in Kirkland, WA, for the county’s fir...
Beginning April 1, 2023, states may resume Medicaid redeterminations and terminations of coverage for those no longer eligible.
When it comes to addressing the intersections of mental health and criminal justice, it seems there aren’t many better places to work than Arizona.
As thought leaders in behavioral health crisis care, Connections Health Solutions (CHS) advocates at all levels of government for an improved and reimagined crisis response system that provides immediate access to high-quality behavioral he...
Maricopa County is investing $2.56 million into a new pilot program to expand behavioral health services. This pilot program will make Connections Health Solutions the second provider of Court-ordered evaluations in the County.